00:39 <discocaml> <dreamfigurine> hi

01:06 <discocaml> <dubious245> Hello.

01:21 <discocaml> <dreamfigurine> I was wondering if anyone could help confirm some things for me about OCaml. I'm typically using rust to do dev, but I was curious to know a few things about OCaml. Namely, 1. can I build binaries that can be easily distributed with it? 2. are there any nice tools for making desktop applications/guis? I saw ReasonML which looks like it can compile to native code but I know nothing else about it. Thank you

01:23 <discocaml> <Kali> ocaml compiles to native code

01:24 <discocaml> <Kali> or bytecode

01:24 <discocaml> <Kali> or can be interpreted

01:25 <discocaml> <Kali> or js- or wasm-transpiled

01:25 <discocaml> <Kali> so yes definitely you can distribute it in many formats

01:25 <discocaml> <dreamfigurine> super cool and great news 🙂

01:27 <discocaml> <Kali> as for 2, there's bogue, raylib, and brr that come to mind

01:28 <discocaml> <Kali> although brr is a browser-based one

01:29 <discocaml> <yawaramin> a Gtk+ binding is also available for making GUIs, see https://discuss.ocaml.org/t/trying-the-7guis-with-lablgtk3-ocaml/12033

01:30 <discocaml> <yawaramin> it's used by eg https://github.com/bcpierce00/unison

01:31 <discocaml> <dreamfigurine> Thank you Kali those are all very interesting 🙂

01:31 <discocaml> <dreamfigurine> yawaramin gtk is interesting I always worry about the C++ FFI libraries in languages like these because of the lack of inheritence. But its definitely worth looking into especially if others are using it to good effect.

01:32 <discocaml> <yawaramin> Gtk+ is a C library

01:33 <discocaml> <dreamfigurine> Well that settles that concern 😄

09:25 <discocaml> <bbatsov> Can anyone here help with https://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/comments/1jspi4f/add_some_ocaml_resourceslinks_to_the_sidebar/ ? I'm not sure if the Reddit moderators actually follow the conversations there and I think this will be a nice small improvement.

11:10 <discocaml> <leviroth> I think gasche shows up in /r/ocaml reasonably often.

14:05 <discocaml> <rhomoney> Hello , does anyone have any examples of calling Ocaml code from C?

14:14 <discocaml> <cod1r> https://ocaml.org/manual/5.3/intfc.html

14:55 <discocaml> <rhomoney> Thanks, do you know if there is a way to use ctypes or is that just calling C from ocaml?

16:04 <discocaml> <cod1r> ctypes repo details how to use it so that you don't have to write c stub code

16:04 <discocaml> <cod1r> that page is really only necessary if you want to write C

16:24 <discocaml> <lukstafi> Can one use ctypes to bind a statically linked library without C stubs?

17:16 <discocaml> <poselsky> You'll need to write what functions you need exported with ctypes ppx.

17:45 <discocaml> <rhomoney> Yeah i think they don't give an example of how to create a shared library so languages like Go can call it via cgo

17:51 <qu1j0t3> cgo cult